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Low interest rates, competition, digitalization and regulation all shape banking and create considerable turbulence in the banking industry. msg group has three key banking experts: msg for banking ag, msg Rethink Compliance and Finnova, all of whom have the expertise and experience required to help banks master the challenges of today, while preparing for those of tomorrow.

msg for Banking

msg for banking rethinks banking and offers our customers smart, innovative and platform-based digitized solutions from a single source. For more than 100 years, we have been supporting our customers in optimizing their business success and helping them to transform their business in line with constantly changing financial markets. As a market leader in bank management and regulatory reporting and a provider of high-quality consulting solutions, we are a reliable partner at our customers' side.

In the areas of Strategy & Business Models, Finance, Risk & Compliance, Capital Markets, Payments, Digital Transformation & IT and Financial Artificial Intelligence, we are ideally equipped to identify and evaluate upcoming challenges and implement them together with our customers. Solutions in the areas of digitalization and cloud are just as much a part of this as a solution for the overall bank management of the future.

ORRP - the Open Risk and Reporting Platform Architecture - is our answer to the consistent and transparent methods and processes in bank management required by European and national supervisory authorities. ORRP combines the technical added value of the solutions THINC (bank management) and BAIS (reporting) on one platform and thus enables the efficient linking of reporting and risk controlling, for example in the normative approach of ICAAP/ILAAP. In this form, ORRP is unique in Germany.

Finnova develops product-based front-to-back office solutions for banks. With their proprietary product, “Finnova Banking Software”, the Swiss company helps banks and BPO providers efficiently process their standard banking functions.

The consulting and technology company msg Rethink Compliance is a specialist in the area of Anti-Financial Crime and helps customers to implement their compliance strategies to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption.

Banking.Vision Events

In this basic technical seminar on working with BAIS, you will learn the daily processes in msg.ORRP/BAIS, the data delivery from the bank's inventory management systems, the necessary parameterisations and the analysis methods for the traceability of BAIS reporting proposals. In a short space of time, you will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the msg.ORRP/BAIS modules.

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly available in savings banks – but actual use by employees often falls short of expectations. In this compact AI Coffee Break session, we discuss typical challenges, highlight success factors for change management, and provide concrete ideas on how AI can be sustainably integrated into everyday work in a way that is also accepted by employees.

The online seminar "Stocks and Funds" offers you a comprehensive introduction, in-depth insights and practice-oriented knowledge of the instruments and structures of the equities asset class. Key topics such as indices, derivatives, funds and corporate actions in equities are covered and basic terms are explained. Practical exercises help you to consolidate the knowledge you have acquired.

Our series of events for managers provides you with in-depth insights into key aspects of leadership and change in Germany's two largest banking groups - the savings banks and cooperative banks. Use this platform to share knowledge, learn from each other and take a valuable look at the bigger picture. At the 13th Leadership MeetUp, discuss how managers can strengthen mental health in the workplace through their attitude and structural design, and why leadership needs to be rethought as an interplay between leading and following.

Compass for beginners: Our experts explain ICT assets and the information network under DORA. What has changed, what needs to be done, how can you create added value?

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